Changing default placeholder text

[Thomas]

-----Original Message-----
Placeholders on a new slide have "Click to add text" sign

inside, which disappears when you click inside a
placeholder.

Is there any way to edit "Click to add text" sign? I need

to develop a project status report template with specific
text in placeholders that would disappear when a person
clicks "inside" the placeholder.

.It's very easy to do. When you write the text you want

in the "Click to add text" sign, you can highlight each
word, phrase, idea inside individually, then right click
that highlighted area. After you right click, you want to
choose the custom animation area. On the right side of
the screen you have the option to "add animation" and what
method you want to use to activate the animation. What
you want to choose is the exit animation and out of those
choices go to more and finally choose fade. This will
cause the area you highlithed under the "Click to add
text" box, on any slide, to disappear.

 

[Guest]

You are right. But animation works only when the show is running, not when someone edits it. I need "tips" for filling in placeholders that would apear there instead of "Click to add text" and would have exactly the same properties as "Click to add text" (i.e. the text would disappear once the person editing the presentation clicks inside the placeholder to input text)

 

[Sonia]

Unfortunately you cannot edit the placeholders or add any. What you see is
what you get.
--
Sonia, MS PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun CD software, templates, and tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com/

You are right. But animation works only when the show is running, not when

someone edits it. I need "tips" for filling in placeholders that would apear
there instead of "Click to add text" and would have exactly the same
properties as "Click to add text" (i.e. the text would disappear once the
person editing the presentation clicks inside the placeholder to input text)

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello,

PowerPoint does not have the capability of creating/adding custom
placeholders to the slide master and/or creating/adding customer slide
layouts which would take advantage of such custom placeholders. With
multiple master feature in PowerPoint 2002 and 2003 you can create a
variety of almost identical slide masters with different behaviors
(animations) and placement of title and object areas for AutoLayouts so
that when used in conjunction with the existing autolayouts you can get
some additional flexibility but you are still limited to the number and
type of placeholders on in the masters to those that are listed in the
"Master Layout" dialog. When that is still insufficient you can also create
slides that are laid out and formatted the way you want and then you can
use the Duplicate Slide command (or just copy/paste) to make a new copy of
the slide each time you need to create a slide that uses the same
layout/formatting.

Of course, if you (or anyone else reading this message) feel strongly that
some kind feature for creating custom placeholders and/or slide layouts
should be a built-in feature in PowerPoint, don't forget to send your
feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

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